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Unión del Barrio, a political organization based in Southern California, stands with the families of Ezell Ford, Omar Abrego and all the families of the victims who have been murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department. We are also in solidarity with the struggles across the country against police brutality.

We know clearly that these latest murders by the LAPD are not isolated incidents and that these officers are not just “a few bad apples” within the department. These murders are completely consistent with the history of the LAPD and the relationship that police departments across the country have with poor people in general and people of color in particular. This is why we must demand true change!

Today Union del Barrio demands:

The LAPD to immediately release the names of the officers who killed Ezell Ford & Omar Abrego.

That Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey file murder charges against those responsible for the deaths of Ezell Ford and Omar Abrego.

That Councilmember Curren Price present/support a resolution to the Los Angeles City Council to create a Civilian Review Board that will have hiring and firing power over the LAPD. All members of the board would be elected by the community.

That Councilmember Curren Price present/support a resolution to the Los Angeles City Council that would make it mandatory for all LAPD officers to wear “lapel cameras” while on duty.

Our political analysis is that the police act as an occupying army in our communities and that they do not represent the best interests of our community. Although many of the cops who roam our streets are people of color, they still uphold and defend a White Power system that uses brute violence to keep us at the bottom; socially, politically and economically. The police also serve the role of the modern day slave catchers but instead of plantations, today they fill privately owned prisons to make billions of dollars annually at the expense of primarily Black, Brown & poor people. ¡Ya basta!

Union del Barrio understands that while protests, marches and rallies are important, those actions alone are not enough to stop these killer cops. This “Justice” system is corrupt to the bone; cops, judges, wardens, politicians…etc. The only way to stop this system from killing/brutalizing us is to ORGANIZE! We are committed to building independent community organization that will be strong enough to create a dual and contending power that can challenge and defeat the current system. That means that we must launch campaigns to win positions of political power in order to implement fundamental changes.

Lastly, some may claim that “There are good cops” in the LAPD, we raise the question, “If they are good cops, why do they not expose the corruption and the racism that is rampant inside of the LAPD?” Unión del Barrio firmly believes that “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!”

The Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH), in face of the tragic events the Palestinian people are going through in Gaza, fulfills its duty to manifest the following:

We declare our adhesion to the words of comrade Evo Morales, founder of the Network in Defense of Humanity, president of the Plurinacional State of Bolivia declaring Israel a terrorist state.

We further manifest our absolute rejection of the genocide against the Palestinian people by a State founded on the remains and colonial occupation of Palestinian territories.

We recognize and express our solidarity with the historical struggle of the Palestinian people and its organizations of resistance, especially in Gaza against the attempt of Israel to exterminate it and strip what is left of their homeland.

We condemn the imperialist role of the United States that feeds and supports politically, financially and militarily Israel in face of the unbelievable inaction of the UN Security Council whose resolutions on Palestine have been systematically and with impunity by Washington. A United States that demonstrates its hypocrisy and cynicism of its actions throughout history,
threatening with sanctions against the peoples of Latin America, Africa and Eurasia that defend their sovereignty while it supports the actions of Israel.

We accuse the complicity of these actions, by omission in some cases of the governments of the European Union as well as unconditional support of the media obeying the dictates of Washington. Stop Now! Calling this genocide a war perpetrated by one of the best armed armies in the world against peoples whose defensive resources are infinitely less in number and quality!

We call on you to join the campaign for the Boycott, lack of investments and sanctions against the terrorist state of Israel. It is now time for solidarity to be active and creative further from the statements of condemnation. We have failed to over 1 600 persons killed in Palestine in recent weeks as well as the 9 000 wounded since the terrorist campaign called hypocritically Protection Margin.

We demand an end to apartheid, genocide as well as the walls and illegal settlements. We insist on the governments of the world to demand Israel to comply with the resolutions of the UN Security Council and force their withdrawal from Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, return to the borders prior to the Six Days War (1967) and insure the return of Palestinian refugees as established by the Resolution No. 242 of November, 1967, a resolution that has yet to be complied with by the State of Israel.

We defend a real political solution of the conflict in Palestine on the basis of a dialogue, negotiation and existence of two equal states with definite borders and recognized internationally. A solution that requires the immediate lifting of the blockade of Gaza and liberation of all the Palestinian political prisoners. We congratulate the posture of solidarity of the governments of ALBA, Mercosur and other governments of the South against the barbarous conduct of Israel in Gaza.

Using ours the words of revolutionary Nelson Mandela who said: we now too well that our freedom will be incomplete without the freedom of Palestine; we affirm that Israel has lost morally and politically this battle against the brave people of Palestine and the growing condemnation of the peoples of the world against a rogue State that violates international law. The unyielding resistance of Palestine will be rewarded sooner than later with the smiles of the children of a free homeland.

Against Israeli terrorism and U.S. imperialism, in defense of the inalienable rights of Palestine and all the peoples of the world!

Unión del Barrio, a political organization based in occupied territories of southern California, declares our position contributing to the global repudiation of Israeli state terrorism imposed on the Palestinian people. Furthermore, we call on our membership to unite with all women and men who cherish freedom and peace so that we may emphatically demand that Israel pull from Gaza its terrible capacity for delivering death.

As Unión del Barrio we understand very well what is at stake for the people of Palestine. We understand perfectly how it feels when a terribly powerful government imposes itself militarily on a people in order to build walls, repress children and their families, and to enforce the “security” and “welfare” of its political power upon a foundation of pain and misery of a subjugated people.

We know that this military siege and all attacks undertaken by Israel have been carried out for political purposes. We know this because it is impossible to create security or impose peace by bombing civilians and the imposition of collective punishment. What happened in Gaza during 2008-2009, 2012 and now in 2014 is evidence that Israel does not want peace, but instead seeks to exterminate the Palestinian people.

As part of the strategy to advance this extermination, the right-wing government of Israel must convince the world to accept its deceptive narratives. Israel is now in the position of working tirelessly to reconcile pictures of dead Palestinian children and an absolute majority of civilian deaths throughout Gaza with an idea that they are defending themselves from the “savagery and aggression of Hamas.” Embroiled in a sick solidarity, Barack Hussein Obama and other international traffickers in death waste no opportunity to declare the “absolute and unequivocal right” of Israeli self-defense, although these macabre cheerleaders fail to mention their conviction that self-defense is a privilege exclusive to Israel.

The European Union also bears a high responsibility for their position situating a false equivalency between aggressor and victim, meanwhile the EU cooperates with Israel at the military, economic and political levels. And finally, in the most opportunistic and cowardly fashion, Arab monarchies operate as unrepentant lackeys of imperialism. So-called Arab kings and princes do not raise a peep while they profit from the sale and delivery of Arab fuel to power Israeli warplanes, drones, ships and tanks used crush the Palestinian people of Gaza.

This crisis must be classified in no other way than as a crime against humanity. This is nothing more nor less than an act of genocide being carried out against the Palestinian people. This logic of death is the path that zionism, imperialism and capitalism offer in order to win their “peace” and “security.” Humanity collectively knows that is not the way of the future.

Compañeras y compañeros of Gaza, Unión del Barrio is with you.

Stop the military aggression of Israel against the Palestinian people! Stop the bombing of Gaza!

End the blockade of Gaza, open all borders! Long live the people of Palestine!

Freedom for political prisoners in Zionist prisons!

Central Committee – Unión del Barrio

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As of the publication of this statement on July 25, 2014:

Over 800 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,100 wounded. A vast majority of these casualties have been civilians, and many have been children.

The conference will feature two panels on police brutality and the intensifying war on our community and conditions inside the Prison Industrial Complex. We will be hearing from Aloni Bonilla, recent victim of police brutality who will give her powerful testimony and tell us how we must fight back Carolyn Torres of Chicanos Unidos de Orange County will be speaking on the lockdown of our communities using gang injunctions and how we can fight back in our own defense. Martha Esquivel will speak on the conditions of long term solitary confinement (Security Housing Unit-SHU) and other methods of long term torture and the struggle we must make. Also, she will be reporting on the hunger strike throughout California to change these conditions and the status of that struggle-what must be done.

Pedro Rios of the American Friends Service Committee will give an account of the growing “Immigration” Detention of our gente and what communities are doing to struggle against Migra/ICE terror Helena Rodriguez of Union del Barrio will give an account of forced sterilizations against our sisters in the Prison/Industrial Complex. And more speakers and topics…..

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